Creating an iOS App with File Sharing Activated

No, I just used the copyTo() function. It's in the fourth post in this thread.

I would use copyTo() first, just to see if you can get that to work.

If you're pasting the code to a timeline script, you can just delete the word "private".

You'll need a button on the stage with an instance name -- copy_btn would work -- and then add this:

copy_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, eButtonClicked);

devoti,

Did you verify that the file you want to share is in File.documentsDirectory?

You can use the code from my previous post to list the files there.

Hi Abhishake,

For no apparent reason, it's now working -- the file test.txt is showing up in the iTunes File Sharing Documents pane.

The only change I made to the code was to do another check to verify the file was getting copied to File.documentsDirectory. In this new check, the app displays a list of the Document files in status_txt. After the try/catch statement in the code listed above, the if(ok) statement now looks like this:

            if (ok)
            {   
                var documentsDirectoryContents:Array = File.documentsDirectory.getDirectoryListing();
                var fileNames:Array = [];
                var item:File;
                for each(item in documentsDirectoryContents)
                {
                    fileNames.push(item.name);
                }
               
                status_txt.text = "Files in " + File.documentsDirectory.nativePath + ":" + "\n" + fileNames.join(", ");
            }

The rest of the code, app settings, etc. is completely unchanged. I have no idea if this new check made any difference...maybe it nudged the iPad into doing some internal update which then resulted in the shared file showing up in iTunes.

I'm testing on Windows 7 with a borrowed iPad 1.

Thanks again for taking the time to look into this problem. It's helpful to know that the location for shared files should be File.documentsDirectory instead of File.applicationStorageDirectory.

Hi,

In my test app, there's one button and one dynamic text field. Here's the button click handler:

        private function eButtonClicked(e:MouseEvent):void
        {
            status_txt.text = "Attempting file copy";
           
            var source:File = File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath("test.txt");
            var destination:File = File.documentsDirectory.resolvePath( "test.txt" );
            //var destination:File = File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath( "test.txt" );

            var ok:Boolean = true;
           
            try
            {
                source.copyTo( destination, true );
            }
            catch (err:Error)
            {
                status_txt.text = "Error copying file: " + err.message;
                ok = false;
            }
           
            if (ok)
            {
                status_txt.text = "File was copied";
            }
        }

Clicking the button results in status_txt displaying "File was copied".

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Do you have a working example created with Flash CS Pro 5.5 (and the version of AIR 2.7 which was compiled on June 28, 2011)?